New York A 8803: AID TO LOCALITIES BUDGET

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 8303--D A. 8803--D
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2024
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IN SENATE -- A BUDGET BILL, submitted by the Governor pursuant to arti-
cle seven of the Constitution -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
IN ASSEMBLY -- A BUDGET BILL, submitted by the Governor pursuant to
article seven of the Constitution -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from
said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee
with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT making appropriations for the support of government
AID TO LOCALITIES BUDGET
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. a) The several amounts specified in this chapter for aid to
2 localities, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to accomplish the
3 purposes designated by the appropriations, are hereby appropriated and
4 authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided, to the respective public
5 officers and for the several purposes specified.
6 b) Where applicable, appropriations made by this chapter for expendi-
7 tures from federal grants for aid to localities may be allocated for
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 spending from federal grants for any grant period beginning, during, or
2 prior to, the state fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2024 except as
3 otherwise noted.
4 c) The several amounts named herein, or so much thereof as shall be
5 sufficient to accomplish the purpose designated, being the undisbursed
6 and/or unexpended balances of the prior year's appropriations, are here-
7 by reappropriated from the same funds and made available for the same
8 purposes as the prior year's appropriations, unless herein amended, for
9 the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024. Certain reappropriations in
10 this chapter are shown using abbreviated text, with three leader dots
11 (an ellipsis) followed by three spaces (... ) used to indicate where
12 existing law that is being continued is not shown. However, unless a
13 change is clearly indicated by the use of brackets [ ] for deletions and
14 underscores for additions, the purposes, amounts, funding source and all
15 other aspects pertinent to each item of appropriation shall be as last
16 appropriated.
17 For the purpose of complying with the state finance law, the year,
18 chapter and section of the last act reappropriating a former original
19 appropriation or any part thereof is, unless otherwise indicated, chap-
20 ter 53, section 1, of the laws of 2023.
21 d) No moneys appropriated by this chapter shall be available for
22 payment until a certificate of approval has been issued by the director
23 of the budget, who shall file such certificate with the department of
24 audit and control, the chairperson of the senate finance committee and
25 the chairperson of the assembly ways and means committee.
26 e) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, for purposes
27 of any appropriation made by this chapter which authorizes spending in
28 an amount net of refunds, rebates, reimbursements, credits, repayments,
29 and/or disallowances, "refunds" shall mean funds received to the state
30 resulting from the overpayment of monies, "rebates" shall mean funds
31 received to the state resulting from a return of a full or partial
32 amount previously paid, as for goods or services, serving as a
33 reduction, discount or rebate to the original payment amount,
34 "reimbursements" shall mean funds received to the state as repayment in
35 an equivalent amount for goods or services, including but not limited to
36 personal service costs, incurred by the state in the first instance
37 being provided to a third party for their benefit and partially or in
38 full financed by such third party, "credit" shall mean monies made
39 available to the state that reduce the amount owed to a third party,
40 including but not limited to billing errors, rebates, and prior overpay-
41 ments, "repayment" shall mean the return of monies as pay back